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Biederman Blog: Must we pay to sing that birthday tune to ya?
Happy wha, wha, what? Lawsuit? That song that’s crooned daily around the world to commemorate how we’ve gotten a year older is copyrighted — or is it in the public domain? Jennifer Nelson, a New York documentary filmmaker, has sued Warne...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 10:08am -07:00T (459 words)
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Biederman Blog: Ghost of a chance? Not now in this comic case
The Ghost Rider has been brought back to life by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City in a ruling that gives writer Gary Friedrich another shot to prove he didn’t relinquish his renewal rights in the comic.
The appellate court found that a lower c...
Dateline: 2013-06-13 9:54am -07:00T (451 words)
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Biederman Blog: Mind those Ps & Qs for stylish music sales
Entertainment lawyers may need to park an additional reference work next to those well-thumbed copies of Strunk & White and The Bluebook: There’s a new style guide for the music industry, as reported in deft fashion in the Wall Street Journal.
While...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 12:38pm -07:00T (162 words)
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Biederman Blog: A Sly parable about artists, reps, contracts
A court ruling has ended on a sour note for embattled musician Sly Stone, who has lost yet another fight to regain royalties that flow from his catalog of hit songs. The Court of Appeals for the State of California handed down a ruling in favor of music...
Dateline: 2013-06-11 9:23am -07:00T (747 words)
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Biederman Blog: Entertainment lawyers: Please help us improve
The Editorial Board of the Biederman Blog regularly surveys its readers and the Entertainment Law community to learn how to improve the site’s information and presentation. If you’re a practicing lawyer, particularly in the field of Entertainm...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 3:38pm -07:00T (75 words)
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Biederman Blog: For legal access to online music, uneven notes
While those who negotiate and make deals in the music industry may be doing a little dance about Apple’s reported official entry as early as today into broadcast streaming, the future appears to be dim for online hosting services such as Rapidshare,...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 9:23am -07:00T (428 words)
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Biederman Blog: Court reconsiders harm in online infringement
A U.S. District Court in New York has done a double-take on its Agence France Presse v. Morel decision handed down in January.
Granting a motion of reconsideration, the court clarified its previous ruling to reflect that photographer Daniel Morel (left, i...
Dateline: 2013-06-05 8:53am -07:00T (435 words)
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Biederman Blog: Musicians: Avoid this quartet of legal miscues
Mita Carriman, a onetime indie musician herself and now a lawyer in entertainment, intellectual property and small business law, has offered some noteworthy, hard-nosed counsel to indie musicians, busting a quartet of music-law myths, fallacious notions ...
Dateline: 2013-05-31 9:23am -07:00T (562 words)
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Biederman Blog: Video game-maker thrown for loss on appeal
The First Amendment can’t bowl over the publicity rights of a former Rutgers quarterback when it comes to his depiction in a video game:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in a case closely watched by powerful interests in sports and e...
Dateline: 2013-05-29 8:53am -07:00T (637 words)
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Biederman Blog: Viacom ruling upends an online music decision
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has helped to push the rewind button on a decision involving fifteen major record companies and a now-defunct online music company in an ongoing battle about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and copyrig...
Dateline: 2013-05-28 9:22am -07:00T (682 words)
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Biederman Blog: Court sniffs, scratches case on software in film
There’s no trademark infringement where a fictional company or product portrayed in a film has the same name as an actual company or product, a federal court in Indiana has determined. In South Bend, the U.S. District Court granted Warner Brothers...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:38am -07:00T (699 words)
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Biederman Blog: In Texas, composing ‘Papa’ grapples with WWE
WWE, the entertainment wrestling giant, couldn’t smack down its opponent in a Texas court, as it squared off with the songwriter Papa Berg to get his copyright infringement lawsuit dismissed. A U.S. District Court in Dallas ruled partly in favor o...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:08am -07:00T (552 words)
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Biederman Blog: Ellington heirs lose claim for overseas royalties
It’s apparently not double-dipping when a domestic music publisher pays royalties to its own, affiliated, foreign sub-publishers:
The New York County Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by the...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 1:23am -07:00T (400 words)
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Biederman Blog: SW alum blasts porn trolls with legal phasers
A Southwestern Law School alum has helped hammer from the bench some notorious practitioners of what the blogosphere calls copyright trolling — the so-called Prenda porn cases in which a group of lawyers bought up rights to some online blue works, ...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 8:53am -07:00T (431 words)
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Biederman Blog: Online tips to stay out of entertainment law woe
It’s a fiction based in fact: Yes, in Los Angeles, many waiters, taxi drivers, physicians, lawyers and others are wannabe authors of screenplays. The phones ring off the hook with daily calls from aspiring script writers trying to run down leads fr...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 8:23pm -07:00T (322 words)
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